Friday, May 11, 2007

Zoho Meeting

Received an email inviting me to take part in the Private Beta testing of Zoho Meeting, the newest service from Zoho.

Now this is one I'm quite eager to test simply for the fact that I've tested about 20 different ones over the past year or so. All my testing revolves around the SAP Developer Network and providing the best possible online meeting environment for our community.

I've tried WebEx, Interwise, GoToMeeting, Vyew and several others so it'll be interesting to see how Zoho stacks up to these others.

So going in and setting up a meeting was super easy a matter of just a couple of clicks.

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Even adding others was super easy.

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Needed to install a small plugin

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there you go.

 

Not bad now time will tell on performance, etc. but looking good so far!

 

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6 comments:

cdalby said...

Happy to give you a Live Meeting trial account if you'd like to try it out.

Craig said...

Now that would be something I'd be interested - let me know when you have some time - this week I am off at an event but then after?

Webinar Consultant said...

Hi Craig, the Zoho meeting service looks pretty good, I just had a chance to test today...i'm curious to know if they will charge after beta or offer as a free service.

We also have live meeting available for $50/month, accommodates up to 25 users in each meeting... http://www.batipi.com

Craig said...

Hi "webinar consultant" (why don't people use a name?),

You'll need to talk to Zoho about their plans I don't work for them nor do I I know what their intended business plan is for any of their products.

As for yours the fact you charge that much for only 25 users turns me off I deal with large groups when I do things around 200 at a time.

steven said...

great interface, ease of application, but slooooooooooooooooow and locksup often.

you get what you pay for.

junk!

Andy H said...

Hi - I've just used this to allow a software supplier access to my machine for support purposes. A few things I really didn't like:

1. They were able to take control of my system without me granting/denying access

2. When they had control, their mouse and keyboard controls seemed to take precedence over mine

3. There doesn't appear to be obvious way to uninstall the application

4. Most worryingly when I viewed the log files following the support session it appears to have kept a log of all the keypresses during the session. I'm not sure whether these are mine or theirs, but either way it's not ideal to have key presses logged in plain text format, especially when both they and I have been inputting masked passwords for access into a live system!

For me point 4 alone means that it cannot, under any circumstances, be used again. Item 1 is of concern too.

Andy